“I am not trying to brag, but mostly the enemy soldiers are the ones dying a lot,” Lasta said, referring to the federal government’s troops. “They don’t fight and they run away. They are always nervous and fearful. They are big in numbers, but they are not effective. They just shoot blindly,” she said. “Some of the enemy soldiers are Amharas. They don’t want to fight us.” During one battle, Fenta was shot in the stomach, she said, and rolled down a hill: “I didn’t even feel the wound because I was furious.” The leader of their division, Wagnew Aderaw, estimated that more than a thousand government soldiers had surrendered to Fano.
“Ever since the current government took power, there have been killings and massacres targeting the ethnic Amhara,” he said, referring to the war against the T.P.L.F., among other conflicts. “And now its army is invading our province. The army retaliates in places where we don’t have control.” He went on to tell me that “mothers are being raped. Daughters are being raped. Children were a victim of mortar and heavy artillery attacks. I have never seen this kind of cruelty in my life.”
Aderaw sent a comrade to fetch one of their prisoners, a baby-faced government soldier named Leta. “I surrendered myself voluntarily,” Leta, who was 22 and from the state of Oromia, told me. “I heard they don’t kill you if you surrender.” Several Fano militants watched him carefully, with smiles on their faces. Leta said he was “tired and fed up” of serving in the military after a year and a half, going without enough food and suffering in the intense heat. He had sent money back to his family in Oromia and eventually hoped to make his way to Addis Ababa to find work. I asked him where he got the money. “I sold my gun,” he said. The Fano militants laughed.
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